7:41 PM,
Jan. 18, 2014

Vanderbilt quarterback Patton Robinette (4) is the starting quarterback heading into spring practice, but there are questions about what kind of offense the Commodores will run under new coach Derek Mason.

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Jeff Lockridge
| jlockridge@tennessean.com

But because his last seven years were spent coaching defense, including a three-year run as Stanford defensive coordinator in which his run-stuffing 3-4 scheme wreaked havoc on the Pac-12, there are questions about how Vanderbilt's offense will look in 2014.

"I'm looking for some balance to what you do," Mason said Saturday after being introduced as the new Commodores football coach. "As a defensive coach, the thing that hurts you the most is balance ? that there's not just one guy, that when we line up and we put a product on the ...